About number and composition population of TERNOPIL' REGION by data All-Ukrainian census of the population 2001

The language structure of Ternopil’ region, according to the data of the All-Ukrainian population census ‘2001 , is characterized by the following data:

The part of those whose mother tongue was( %)

the language of their nationality

Ukrainian

Russian

other language

Ukrainians

99.9

х

0.1

0.0

Russians

80.3

19.6

х

0.1

Belarussians

40.0

40.0

20.0

0.0

Poles

8.6

90.2

1.1

0.1

other

15.3

35.6

9.5

39.6

The part of those whose mother tongue is Ukrainian totals 98.3% of the population of region, this is by 1 % more than in 1989. The percentage of those whose mother tongue is Russian totals 1.2% of the population. Comparatively with the data of previous census this index has decreased by 1.3%. The part of other languages, specified like mother tongue, during the period that have passed since previous census did not change and accounts for 0.5%.